Time-scales

MSC’s intention is that this guidance is easy to understand and practical. The MSC intends it to
be a useful tool for potential certification clients, helping you to clearly and simply describe:
o The actions your organisation will implement to enable your fishery to pass the MSC standard.
o The people, other organisations or stakeholders involved in the project and their responsibilities.
o The resources required.
o The timescales and specific milestones that will help you measure progress towards your goals.

Purchase only made when there is
a genuine need
• Value for money is achieved
• Goods /services delivered is
satisfactory
• Liabilities are recorded
completely and accurately
• Only valid liabilities are paid
• Liabilities are paid in sensible,
commercial timescale

The vision shapes the strategy,
which in turn shapes the plans
that support it
● The time horizon decreases as
you descend, with plans typically
looking only one year out
● Certainty generally increases as
the time horizon reduces

Before we discuss the various types of PMO, we need to clarify what we mean by project,
programme and portfolio management, since these terms are used quite specifically below.
Project management. The organisation of resources and activities to deliver a predefined
scope of work, within agreed timescales and costs, using existing capabilities to achieve the benefits
that justified the project.
Programme management.

An overall project schedule is required to determine complete project timescale,
resource requirements and costs. A more detailed schedule is required to manage
and control the project. This more detailed schedule is developed progressively
through the project by producing a schedule for the next stage during Project
Initiation and towards the end of subsequent project stages.
The overall project schedule provides a overview of the activities in the stage.
These activities need to be further defined to the point where all necessary tasks
have been identified.

This is a further development of my last book Brain, Mind, and the Signifying Body(Thibault
2004a). That book was a first step in an overall attempt to rethink meaning-making activity
from the perspective of the body-brain system – the signifying body – embedded in its ecosocial
semiotic environment.

Once the objective and scope are decided, it is necessary to determine what
activities are required to be carried out to meet the objective. The dependencies
between these activities can then be determined, which in turn allows resources
and timescales to be estimated.
This needs to be done for the whole project (project plan), and then in more detail
for the next stage of the project (stage plan). This step is concerned with the
overall project. The project schedule is not intended to direct resources to specific
activities on certain dates.

On the ground, this might mean the chance to
share the benefits and profits from a communal
district heating system. At the strategic level, every
decision must aim to improve quality of life while
also reducing the levels of pollution, water and
energy use, and waste.
Local authorities already have legislative powers to
promote the well-being of their citizens, and yet
these remain overwhelmingly under-used.
Given the nature and timescales of climate change,
there is no alternative to making hard decisions.

Traditionally astrophysics has concerned itself with minimum time-scales measured
in hours rather than seconds. This was understandable as the available recording
media were slow; e.g. chart recorders and photographic plates. In the 1950s, 60s
and 70s wavebands away from the optical were developed; from ground based
radio studies to space and balloon borne high energy work. In contrast to optical
wavelengths instrumentation in these (high and low energy) regimes was capable
of time resolutions of less than a second....

The critical role of the NMMAPS in the development of the air quality standards attracted
intense scrutiny from the scientiﬁc community and industry groups regarding the statistical
models that are used and the methods that are employed for adjusting for potential confound-
ing. Confounding occurs when an attribute that is associated with an outcome is also associated
with the exposure of interest but is not a result of the exposure. In time series studies, we
are primarily concerned with potential confounding by factors that vary on similar timescales
as pollution or mortality.

In this section we describe a simulation study that was designed to assess the bias and mean-
squared error of ˆ under different basis representations for f and the ﬁve approaches to selecting
df that were described in Section 2. Our goal is to generate data from confounding scenarios
that are comparable with situations found in real data and to evaluate the estimation procedures
in each of these scenarios. The deﬁnition of the scenarios relies on the timescales at which con-
founding occurs and the strength of the concurvity between the pollutant series and the seasonal
trend.

As a result of this increased activity delivering tangible results, we increased our shipment and
megawatt ﬁ gures for the full year of 2011, and have adopted a more optimistic forecast for 2012.
There have been many announcements in the ﬁ rst half of 2012, including a number of fuel cell
companies increasing their production capacity. We see this move as a very positive sign that the
commercial sales volumes announced in a number of sectors will indeed be delivered according
to planned timescales.

Metal binding to the amyloidb-peptide is suggested to be involved in the
pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s disease. We used high-resolution NMR to
study zinc binding to amyloid b-peptide 1–40 at physiologic pH. Metal
binding induces a structural change in the peptide, which is in chemical
exchange on an intermediate rate, between the apo-form and the holo-form,
with respect to the NMR timescale.

Any physical storage medium is, by definition, completely dependent upon very specific
combinations of hardware and software for access. The accessibility of information stored
on such media is highly vulnerable in today’s rapidly evolving technological environment.
This issue is not solely the concern of digital archivists, but of all those responsible for
managing and sustaining access to electronic records over even relatively short
timescales.

Even if a pragmatic approach continues to be taken on PRM-TSI compliance work, e.g. for a
residual Pacer fleet, there could be a peak of activity in 2017-2019. The supply side of the
industry will need to increase capacity to cope with this peak, and for supporting continued
operation of existing vehicles. The option of seeking a change to the law to permit a longer
timescale for these modifications, or to permit further review of PRM-TSI scope for vehicles
with a short life expectancy and/or very low use, is one that may be worth pursuing. ...

Peptide and protein sequence analysis using a combination of gas-phase
ion–ion chemistry and tandem MS is described. Samples are converted to
multiply charged ions by ESI and then allowed to react with fluoranthene
radical anions in a quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometer.